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Download MP3 Headlines(5:07) LAPD’S CHIEF BRATTON ON MAY DAY MELEE Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton today presented his report on the May 1st police riot at MacArthur Park to the LA Police Commission....

Download MP3 Headlines(6:00) INFLUENTIAL IRAQ CLERIC COMES OUT OF HIDING Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al Sadr re-appeared in public during Friday prayers after months in hiding. Al Sadr is well known for his opposition...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:00) BLAST IN RUSSIAN MINE KILLS 38 A methane blast in a Siberian coal mine has killed 38 Russian miners. Today’s explosion comes just two months after 110 miners died in...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) DEMS CAPITULATE TO WHITE HOUSE ON WITHDRAWAL TIMELINE The Democratic leadership in Congress has capitulated to the White House demand for a war funding bill without a timetable for withdrawal...

Download MP3 Headlines(7:02) FIGHTING RAGES ON IN LEBANON Lebanon is reeling from a third day of fighting between Lebanese Army forces and a Sunni Islamist group in a Palestinian camp in the country’s north....

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) OUTSPOKEN MEMBER OF AFGHAN PARLIMENT SUSPENDED An outspoken member of Afghanistan’s parliament has been suspended until the end of her term in office. The lower house of parliament voted today...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:40) EXPLOSION AT HISTORIC MOSQUE IN INDIA A bomb at one of India’s largest mosques killed at least 11 people today and wounded dozens more. The blast came as thousands of...

Download MP3 Headlines (5:00) ISRAEL ATTACKS GAZA The Israeli military struck numerous sights in Gaza today after it vowed a severe response to rocket attacks on its soil. The attacks came as efforts to...

Download MP3 Headlines (6:20) Wolfowitz Under Fire The Bush administration and World Bank directors are negotiating President Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the world’s biggest aid agency, said two bank officials. Eli Whitney Debevoise II,...

Download MP3 Headlines(4:56) JERRY FALWELL DEAD AT 73 Reverend Jerry Falwell, the Baptist minister who used television to bring his message to millions and then founded the Moral Majority to help politically mobilize the...